Desc: The House Next Door: Directed by Barry O'Neil. With Edwin Barbour, Mrs. George W. Walters, Gaston Bell, Ethel Clayton. The story opens at the home of Sir John Cotswolt who, with his wife and two children, Cecil and Ulrica. keeps up a fair appearance of poor aristocracy. In the park the children play with Adrian and Esther Jacobson, children of humble, honest Jewish chairmaker Isaac Jacobson. The Christian parents chide their children for playing with "Jewish brats." Sir John's affairs are in bad condition and his attorney informs him that he will likely become bankrupt. A patent lawyer notifies the chairmaker that a machine Jacobson has invented had been granted a patent. Fifteen years later, the children have grown to maturity and the chairmaker, now wealthy, lives in a mansion next door to Sir John Cotswolt. The children, not forgetting their old playmates, renew acquaintance and fall in love all around. Cecil Cotswolt is ardently wooing Esther Jacobson; and Adrian Jacobson is paying sweet court to the gorgeous Ulrica Cotswolt. Then comes the clash of race and religions; both fathers open deadly opposition to the love affairs of their children, who still meet clandestinely. The fight is long and hard, but the lovers are still true to their troth. Cecil Cotswolt develops a wonderful voice and though the family are in straitened circumstances, his sister Ulrica draws upon a personal inheritance and sends her brother to Italy for tuition, this much against the wishes of the old baronet, who declares that his son shall never become a player--or as he calls it, a mountebank. Cecil and Esther part with vows of eternal constancy. Sir John then proposes to select a husband for his daughter and introduces a young aristocrat named Trevor, but Ulrica has no use for the insipid dandy and is very clever in letting him see it. Two years later, Cecil has returned and is to make his debut at the Grand Opera House in the role of Faust. Both families are agog at the event and all attend the performance except irascible old Sir John. The performance scored the most pronounced success known for years. The players were showered with bouquets; hats and handkerchiefs were waved in the air, the entire audience were upon their feet and even the Cotswolts and Jacobsons shook hearty hands from adjoining boxes. Cecil's triumph did not appease the old man and the next day when the drawing room was packed with flowers Sir John to vent his temper kicked the bouquets all over the place. And still the war of the parents went on, and the young lovers could only live and hope. The next blow to Sir John was the fact that Isaac Jacobson was knighted in recompense for his many good and charitable deeds. It was noticed that the foundation of the Cotswolt Mansion was becoming weak and was sinking into a sewer. As the houses adjoined, Sir Isaac employed the builders to make repairs. The workmen's digging and noise caused Sir John much annoyance and he hurled many maledictions at his neighbor. During the progress of the repairs, one night, a dancing party was given in Sir Isaac's house. The merriment was at its height when a fearful crash was heard. The guests rushed out and saw the House Next Door collapsing; everybody ran to the rescue and Jacobson entered the falling building and brought out Sir John Cotswolt. The old man was taken into the Jacobson house and put to bed. he was seriously but not mortally injured. Both families are gathered around the bed and Cotswolt grasped the hand of his Jewish neighbor and there the promise was given that united the Jews and Christians in one family.